ITALIAN SHAMANISM, Strega, Folk Magic, Segnature and Social Media

#strega #Italian #witchcraft

Angela Puca covers Italian Shamanism, Paganism, folk magick, witchcraft, vernacular healers, the use of Segnature in relation to Social Media.

Paper delivered at the annual conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions in September 2019 at Leeds Trinity University.

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00:00 Introduction: Paper presentation to the BASR

00:53 Social media & Italian shamanism & folk magic

01:26 Methodology – Facebook group

05:38 Discourses emerging in the community

07:55 Core Shamanism & social media

09:49 Folk magic & social media

12:41 Changes to initiation to online rituals

14:18 The shared term of Segnature

16:00 Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VofnYA6JgVo